-Su
aren't her aliens great? I always see them on ebay and love every single one she's done.
-Amber.
I was just looking at the Autumn-Love-Heart Pendant on your list and at the bottom of the auction (which was ended by the way) was a list of "similar items"... and I couldn't believe it. The "similar" items were cheap imported glass heart pendants... junk... crap...WHY DOES EBAY DO THIS? Oh I find that very annoying.
Laura
Laura,
eBay doesn't care, they just match up a key word like glass and heart and voila, 'similar items'.
Yuk.
-Su
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tanner Studio Raku Eye of the Storm
SOBBING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Those beads jumped off the screen and screamed at me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What an incredible color combination. So rich, so bold.
I am SWOONING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DAMN. I need to find a sugar-daddy.
sigh.
katie Su wrote:
I can't decide if I'm happy or sad.
I tried for Raku Eye of the Storm. I didn't get it. I pushed it up to double what the guy is getting for his other sets, though! I really, really wanted it, but I really, really should not have been bidding. Must have been the powers that be, shaking their finger at me. But, oh MAN! What incredible COLORS! I looked at all of his other sets, and there were some that I really liked, but not like that set. I think it was the vivid orchid-lavender against the earthier raku colors.... kind of like finding that first spring crocus, when everything else is still brown and loamy, the grass is just starting to green, and all the yellow leaves that were hiding under the snow have reappeared....
We moved into this in the fall, 5 years ago. We put down sod late in October. The day before the sod arrived, I found all of the bulbs on clearance at Wallyworld and Home Depot. I picked up all of the early crocus they had (I remember it was hundreds) , and as we were laying sod on a cold October day, I was sprinkling crocus bulbs hither and yonjust before we'd roll out the next piece of sod. I couldn't make sure they were all facing the right way up, a lot of them were the rejects, withered and dry, but I scattered them with hope, knowing that some of them would make it. Many were eaten by field mice, and other hungry critters. And then one March day, I looked out into the yard, and there were little bits of color..... here a bit yellow, there a lavender so bright it made your heart smile. Every year a few dozen come back. Not the carpet I'd hoped for, but in some ways, all the nicer. Those few reminders of spring, and strength, and determination. I'm going to miss the house. I designed it, and it is a part of me. But I'm really going to miss my gardens. So many special plants: given to me by my family; transplanted from the farm; ordered from catalogs that came with birthday money tucked inside; haunting the garden centers, waiting for the day the 1/2 price sign went up, and then hunting for one or 2 unusual additions... I have 15 different lilacs. I have some incredible peonies, and some breathtaking daylilies. I have a wonderful hydrangea that starts out pure white, and then through the fall deepens from blush pink to deepest rose. I know that I will not have a place to garden for a long time to come. Realistically, having a yard of any size, much less the acre I have now, is far too physically demanding for my back. The townhomes (at least in my price range) have VERY strict coventants..... no planting, no personalizing.
I didn't realize until just now how very much I'm going to miss it.
katie
Katie, I felt the same way about that set, it was very unique but I refrained from bidding as I'd already managed to acquire a stunning set of Ellen's raku lentils.
Your story of the crocus made me smile. We've been planting bulbs every fall here at the marina and each spring it comes as a surprise to me what survives. I have those superb little snake-head fritillaria dotted in the garden and when we finally untie and move away from this mooring it will be a wrench to leave them behind.
I'm sorry you have to move into a situation without all your beautiful flowers. You'll have memories though of that carpet of crocus which is more than a lot of people do. Nothing you plant is ever lost since part of it is still planted in you too.
-Su
I *so* understand! When I sold my first gardens (actually, we sold the house, but I'll never think of it that way), I just walked away and left all my plants for the new owners because I had nowhere to transplant them. I went back and visited once and was so sad to see everything that I'd planted blooming like crazy without me there to enjoy it. I recognized every plant.
When I sold my second gardens, I was more fortunate: I asked friends who were gardeners to take rootings, cuttings, and portions of my large plants to transplant to their own gardens, with the promise that I could have some of my own plants back when I got settled again. I also left with a huge bag of seeds that I'd gathered and planted at my new home as soon as Mother Nature allowed.
Perhaps it's not too late to ask some friend of your to put some of your plants into their gardens, with the hope that later you can get some of them (or at least their progeny) back?
Sometimes its best not to see though! Every time I pass down a certain neighborhood street and see the house and yard where I used to live, I want to either yell at someone or cry... but, of course, I just drive on by. It was only a rental 'garden' but still was hard to leave. They have dug up, or allowed to die, two long beds of tall and dwarf canna lilies; along the sidewalks and around the front yard all the plants are gone... dwarf azaleas, hostas, hibiscus, camellias etc. Almost as awful is seeing 2-3 cars parked in the yard where beautiful, hard won grass used to be. :( I try not to drive down that street anymore. :(
Oh... and I think it was you that asked about the new/temp house and my plants...
temp house before...
It's neat to have young plants that came from other much loved plants. A large portion of mine came from some very old plants of my moms, including a 6' ft tall pencil cactus (milkbush) and my night blooming Cereus. It bloomed last night and I missed it. :(
I have a lot of nice cacti and some oddball ones... night blooming Cereus, a huge rick-rack cactus, tons of small Barbados Shrub cactus, pencil cactus (not a true cactus but sure looks like one!) etc. If you or anyone ever wants some cuttings, just let me know.
I need more plants!!! :)
Soooo true! I have never been back to see my gardens in north GA...I'm pretty sure they are not at all as I left them. A good friend of mine mentioned that the new owner almost immediately paved over my wild iris and ladyslipper bed. I had carefully transplanted each flower from elsewhere on my property to the entryway of the house, and I nurtured every one of them. (Anyone who has ever transplanted a ladyslipper knows how hard *that* was.) I had also ringed the area with rocks that I carried from the forest, so there would be no way to accidentally pave over those flowers. Our home was purchased in the Fall, and my guess is that the new owner didn't wait for Spring to see what was in the garden. Very sad...
It was indeed me who asked. Your plants look great in their new (temporary) home! Everytime I see your pics I realize that I would have been much better off working in pots than tilling soil. As it turns out, I'm in the process of moving right now, which means that once again I'm getting ready to leave my gardens and my plants.
I still have many of the "parent" plants from my current garden at the homes of various friends because I didn't purchase a lot of new plants for this house, but I don't think that I'll have the heart to replant another time. Also, this home came with a lot of antique camellias that I won't be able to propagate on such short notice.
It appears that this time we'll be leaving GA. I have lived in the north, middle, and south of the state, so it's been a long time since I gardened anywhere else. Many of my plants are GA natives...I don't even know which ones will grow elsewhere. I am hoping that we'll be able to purchase a house with an existing garden that I can nurture and expand, rather than having to start from scratch again.
Nope. Can't have too many plants or too many beads. :-)
Oh Katie, that is sad. :( Are there no townhomes in your area that allow planting/painting/etc? In my area, if you buy a townhome in a new development, they can impose all those rules, but if you buy one in an established neighborhood, they have to abide by the rules already in place in that neighborhood... in most old neighborhoods, NONE other than city ordinances. It might be worth looking into, in case your area is similar.
I couldn't like with a neighborhood associati> I can't decide if I'm happy or sad.
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